It was developed by Ksplice, Inc. until 21 July 2011, when Oracle acquired Ksplice, started offering support for Oracle Linux. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux was dropped and turned into a free 30-day trial for RHEL customers as an incentive to migrate to Oracle Linux Premier Support.

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Any time you read "Oracle did X" you can assume that X was a bad idea/ bad for everyone.

I just installed ksplice from ksplice.com (I had to install curl first - obviously a missing dependency). So I'm waiting for the next kernel update to see how it goes

I noticed that there is also a ksplice package in universe. I had tried it before but didn't find anything to configure so I decided to try the other one. Does anybody know about the differences between both packages?

Isn't Oracle improving the product faster/better with its more abundant resources? But I know this isn't always the case (OpenOffice vs LibreOffice comes to mind).

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Oracle has stopped working on OpenOffice all together and have said they are going to leave it to the community, so that might be why you notice it isn't developing as fast as it used to when Sun worked on it.